Fiona Watt
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Fiona trained with Motley .
She was one of six international artists producing SIX ACTS, a site-specific intervention in the city of Prague for Scenofest at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011. Working online for the six months prior to the residency with a group of twenty international students and emerging artists from the disciplines of performance, scenography, architecture and visual art to research and develop a performance language, Act 6 brought audiences and acts together via an innovative approach to Wayfinding.
She is Creative Producer for Creativite sans Frontieres (UK) , a collaboration between artists and communities built under the Interreg IV 2 Seas Programme.
Theatre credits include: 'i am small THE WORLD IS BIG (Accidental Collective, Kenty County Hall) " The Almond and the Seahorse" (Sherman Cymru)"A Woman of No Importance" (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) "Further Than The Furthest Thing" (Prime Productions), "The Beauty Queen of Leenane", "Boston Marriage" (Bolton Octagon) "The Weir" (Lyric, Belfast), "Othello" (Nottingham Playhouse), "Dealer's Choice" (Tron), "Outlying Islands" (World Stages Festival, Toronto and UK tour).
For the Traverse: "East Coast Chicken Supper", "Dark Earth" (Edinburgh Festival), "Outlying Islands" (Edinburgh Festival, Royal Court and World Stages Festival, Toronto), "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek", "Heritage" and "Highland Shorts".
" East Coast Chicken Supper" and "Outlying Islands" won Fringe Firsts at the 2005 and 2002 Edinburgh Festivals.
Opera credits include: "Good Angel, Bad Angel" (Hebrides Ensemble) "La Traviata" (Haddo), "Mavra", "Riders to the Sea", "Gianni Schicchi" and "La Pietra del Paragone" (RSAMD).
Based in the massive Thames Gateway regeneration zone she is experimenting with elements of her scenographic practice to make new cross disciplinary collaborations with visual artists, urban planners and cultural policy makers in response to this changing environment (see website)
